Nicholas Bell

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Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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Salve Maria | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

The Good Mother: Coll Examines Motherhood as Psychological Trauma Seeing as director Mar Coll punctuates her third feature Salve Maria with chapters utilizing quotes from...

Mexico 86 | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Coup de Madre: Díaz Revisits Violent Turmoils with Intimate Familial Drama Director César Díaz continues his cinematic exploration of Guatemala’s brutal civil war, considered the...

Death Will Come (La Mort viendra) | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

And Bear Your Eyes: Hochhäusler’s Grim Sketch of a Tangled Underworld Death, it seems, does not quite become Christoph Hochhäusler, the Berlin School alum making...

MaXXXine | Review

A Touch of Minx: West Concludes Ersatz ‘Trilogy’ with a Moan It’s an impressive endeavor to unleash three consecutive, thematically related films within the span...

Music | Review

Oedipus Shrugged: Schanelec Finds Tragedy is the Song That Doesn’t End There’s little use clinging to the description of Angela Schanelec’s latest film Music as...

Breaking

Pillion | Review

Sit & Deliver: Lighton Assumes Positions in Titillating Debut There’s...

Interview: György Pálfi & Zsófia Ruttkay – Hen

In 2025 cinema embraced the POV of our winged...

2025 Les Arcs Film Festival: New Lisa Brühlmann, Mar Coll & Lina Soualem Projects In Development

A longstanding champion of emerging European cinema, the Les...

Nouvelle Vague | Review

Make Me Lose My Breath: Linklater Meddles in Manicured...
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